Originally posted by donna
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China just wanted to stop the drug trade from destroying it's people.
They had the death penalty for opium smuggling at the time.
But Britian just wanted to keep pumping it in to China.
It was Britain's superior technology that allowed it to force it's will.
China may have dirty rivers now,
but that's the price they were willing to pay to get superior technology,
and a never ending stream of trained scientists to keep it that way.
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